AFTER ANTONIO ALLEGRI DA CORREGGIO (CORREGGIO 1489-1534)

AFTER ANTONIO ALLEGRI DA CORREGGIO (CORREGGIO 1489-1534) Holy Family with Saint Jerome oil on canvas 65.7 x 55.3 cm The present work a well observed late17/18th-century copy after the painting in the Royal Collection. The original altarpiece is an early work probably dating from soon after Correggio left his home town of Correggio to settle in Parma, where he executed a cycle of frescoes in the Camera di San Paolo in 1518-19. It probably dates shortly after the closely related Holy Family with the Infant Baptist of c. 1518-9 (Musée des Beaux Arts, Orléans). It is likely that this painting was known to Parmigianino, who was in Parma until 1524, because he twice borrowed the idea of the left-hand saint - seen in profile, closer to the viewer than the other figures and cut off by the frame - for his Mystic Marriage of St Catherine of c.1526 (National Gallery, London) and Madonna and Child with Infant St John, the Magdalene and St Zachariah of c.1527-30 (Uffizi).Click here to share: